[Statlist] WORKSHOP: Environmental Risk Modeling and Extreme Events, Montréal, August 28-31, 2017

[Anthony Davison]

As part of a 6-month thematic program on quantitative risk management, the Centre de recherches mathématiques (Montréal, Canada) will hold a workshop on “Environmental Risk Modeling and Extreme Events,” August 28-31, 2017. This workshop will provide a unique opportunity to take stock of recent developments, identify new challenges, and get a chance to meet, and interact with, some 20 leading researchers in extreme-value modeling from academia and industry (see list below).

For a detailed program and registration, see

http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/2017/Extreme17/index_e.php

Students and postdoctoral fellows are encouraged to present a poster at the workshop. One poster session has been scheduled, as well as two sessions of short lightning talks, so that trainees can introduce themselves and their work to the entire audience. Attendance is restricted to 65 participants on a first-come, first-served basis, so please register early.

See you in Montréal!

The organizers,

Anthony Davison, Debbie J. Dupuis, Francis W. Zwiers

LIST OF CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

Dan Cooley (Colorado State University)
Anthony Davison (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Petra Friederichs (Universität Bonn)
Eric Gilleland (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Alexis Hannart (CNRS - UMI IFAECI)
Kathy Jacobs (University of Arizona)
Philip Jonathan (Shell Research)
Paul Kovacs (Western University)
Frances Moore (UC Davis)
Mathieu Ribatet (Université de Montpellier)
Ben Shaby (Penn State University)
Jana Sillmann (CICERO)
Claudia Tebaldi (NCAR UCAR)
Jenny Wadsworth (Lancaster University)
Hugo Winter (EDF Energy R&D UK Centre)
Douglas Woolford (Western University)
Jun Yan (University of Connecticut)
Ben Youngman (University of Exeter)
Francis W. Zwiers (Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, U. of Victoria, BC)